Title : Summer Crossing - Truman Capote - book
Summary :
A summer love story between Grady, a young woman from high society who decides not to accompany her wealthy parents to Europe, and Clyde, a young Jewish mechanic, set against the backdrop of the Upper East Side and a heatwave. Once the parents have left, the two young people spend weeks of love in the apartment, overlooking Central Park. During a visit to Clyde's family, Grady learns that his recently deceased sister had never been to school because she had a weak heart and preferred to frequent the neighborhood garages and exercise her surprising talents as a mechanic. There the novel takes a turn. Grady, caught up in the vertigo of love, disregarding the consequences, rebels like a spoiled little girl and marries Clyde. Confronted by her family... The author hurls our protagonists with an impatient burst of the accelerator from the top of the Queensborough Bridge in a convertible... "It's a naturalistic story, like, basically, all good novels. Like those of Fitzgerald. I wonder if, in this young girl from New York high society marrying a parking attendant by provocation, it is not the Fitzgeraldian motif, the feeling arising from the social, which made Capote reject her. Until then, in him, and again in The Grass Harp, the social has no importance relative to the feeling, a madwoman from the southern home who rambles with a genius more comparable to that of Tennessee Williams. And then, in Fitzgerald, the women are intelligent, or wicked, or destructive, but determined, while the men are timid, or cheats, in any case cracked; the opposite of Capote. » Charles Dantzig
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EAN: 9782246703013
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